The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-06-09

this novel as text book and you will find that
their interest in temperance will be aroused.
Whether the author SO intended or not cannot
say, but it is the most powerful moral lesson that
has been taught for many day" Rev. Mr.. Savage
said: "Whcn invited to cemc here felt should
be out of place for I generally find myself a
hereto outside my own church, but am glad to
know you allow all to follow out their own meth
DDS in this work. l believe In educating the peO-
pie up to our standard 1t seems to me that law
to prohibit drinking would he like having law to
prohibit lying This question, like all moral ques
tions, is one of education and not of force. Don't
coidic the runkard do not tell him that II 1t
not for the saloon he might be Shakespeare
Napoleon, but put the responsibility where
it bclungs-upon his own will. Either a man
can can not let liquor alone. If he can
not, then he is insane or Il fool and he should be
treated accordingly but If he help 1t he should
he treated severely. This is a hopeful cause.-the
world is not going to the Devil some people say
it is lie read from IL newspaper slip account
OF the liquor drank by the average New-England
farmer just 100 years ago. and by the clergymen as
wcll-saying, 81 leave you to judge of the improve
| mcnt made. But nevertheless we want to see to 1t
that this liquor traffic does not get any stronger
IN"S-
| by increasing vigilance on our part"
Rev. Mr.. Jones, from Chicago, said: "What are
our churches for if not for temperance work.?
Here we creating new societies. why not nave
the church itself working organization. We pass
cd resolution at one temperance conference that
we would preach temperance sermon quarterly
Well, that will be four more than we have been in
the habit of preaching. lie eAhorted the churches
to open their doors more freely to all temperance
workers. We must educate our children better in
temperance tell them what the chemist says of the
effect of alcohol on the system; tell them what the
| advanced medical thought of the world Is; edu-
! cate and agitate at the same time.
| The last speaker, Mrs. Livermore, was greeted
with applause. In her address which was full of
fiery warmth and telling points, she said 49, too,
| like Bros. Jones and Savage, have graduated from
all the temperance societies of the past. now be-
long TO a society that means business. No more
| pretty speeches and pledges, but work and war
What do | for your chemist, when go to
| >herborn and find that 81 out of 100 women sent
| there drunk at the time of the commitment OF
their crimes? and this has been the average ratio
| ever since the institution opened. don't care a
| copper for your physician, when go to Concord
and find that ont of 0men sent there were drunk
when they were arrested for crimes. go to the
insane asylum and find q out of 10 insane through
the constant use of alcoholic drinks. go over to
| South Boston at the Home for weak minded chill
dren and find that l4j out of 800 the offspring
| of incompetence. When see this and know this,
intend to work In their cause until drop out OF
| life; and when leave, my children and grand
children, well drilled, will continue the war Moth
ing but simple, straight, ont and out prohibition Is
| what am working for and mean to have, now OF
| hereafter for the future generation. love the
| cause and Will work for it,"
| If We had few men here and there like Mrs
| Livcrmore prohibition would not seem so far
| away, but in the words of our dear Whittier we
| will say:
3d. pure rcformers not In vain
| Your trust in human kind;
The good which boodshed could not gain,
| Your peaceful zeal shdH md.
The truths You urge are borne abroad
BY every wind and tide
The voice of nature and of God
speaks ont upon Your sidc.'